Late last night I fell down the stairs again. Yes, yes I did. Again. You know when you are walking downstairs, you get to the bottom step and lengthen your stride without thinking. Your body does this to keep you moving on to the next area you need to go to.

Once in awhile, you are not at the bottom step. You are two steps away from the bottom of the stairs. You end up taking a huge step while trying not to fall, to make it to the bottom unharmed. Yeah, that is what happened to me. In doing so I twisted my bad knee again.

Hubby and I had already called a friend of ours last night who is a Physician Assistant. I talked to him about my knees and how long they have been hurting. He said I should go into the doctor's office and get an X-Ray of my knees. I was NOT looking forward to going. I am sure you can understand why.

I went to sleep knowing I was going to be spending most of the day surround by real breathing, maybe sick, people.

Today marked the first day of Brosino Poker Team Meetup Poker tournament. It will run for the next 8 weeks. The first game started at 9:00 am CST. I was asleep. I was also asleep for the 10:30 am game too.

Who wasn't asleep was Team BPPKC made up of @Opidia, @JackMiller, and @Enginewitty. Do not ask what those letters stand for. Really. Honest. Trust me. They spent the day killing it on the poker tables. If I would not have kept losing, I would have been very happy for them! 😹

I woke up at 11:50 am. I ran downstairs to my computer and turned it on while I got ready to play in the Noon game. Seventeen other people were signed up for the same game. This was the most people I have seen play poker, at one time, since I started playing at Brosino Poker (formally LuckSaks).

Now I play my fair share of poker and I do okay. I play for fun. I will tell you right now this Team Up Tournament is NOT just for fun to anyone there. It took me a few games to relax and just settle into playing cards in the new environment I found myself surrounded by.

While playing I iced my knee that weirdly did not hurt as bad as it had over the last month. Somehow, Someway, when I fell late last night whatever was misplaced in my knee had twisted back into place when I overshot the bottom stair!

How do I know my knee is fixed? By the amount of pain I am not in. I knew my knee was painful but I live with pain every day. Some days are just worse than others.

You adjust and go on about your day. The amount of extra pain I am not in now is tenfold. Ice and poker were a perfect match today. I thank God I did not have to go get Xrays.

By the 6:00 PM game, I had finally woke up and relaxed my playing style. The tournament is eight weeks long after all. A few losses by me is going to happen. I started to feel bad for my teammates but then realized they knew what they were getting into by having me on their team. I relaxed even more.

I ended up winning the 6:00 PM game. First place!! I have to admit it felt good to win today. I didn't let my team down and helped get some points on the board for us. I was happy.

I was also starting to get very hungry. The last thing I wanted to eat was more leftover ham. We have been eating leftover ham since Easter. I really wanted Qudobas. Three Cheese Nachos to be exact. I went online to see if they were still open. They were! The store closed in 45 minutes. I asked my husband if he would mind driving there and getting dinner. He didn't mind. He too is tired of ham. 😸

While he was gone and before the last two poker games of the night came I cleaned up two days worth of dishes in my kitchen. Finally, a clean kitchen before 5:00 am!! It was looking to be a very wonderful day!

The last two poker games of the day did not end well as I ate my three-cheese nachos. I was okay with that too. Looking at the Leader Board my teammates must have won at least one other game if not two tonight. For day one of the tournament, I am very happy where we are in the standings. Slow and steady wins the race!!

Full, happy and looking at a clean kitchen I remembered a chocolate cake recipe I saw a few days ago and bookmarked. The recipe is called CraZy CaKe.

I pulled up the bookmark and read through the ingredients. The cake doesn't use milk or eggs. The recipe says it is a chocolate cake made during the Depression-era. Old recipes are usually the best recipes.

With a full tummy, clean kitchen, and a knee that wasn't screaming in pain, I whipped up the batter for the chocolate cake in about three minutes. The oven was preheated and in it went. The small cake is now cooling so I can add the chocolate frosting to it.